Politics

Chennai, August 9(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Finance minister PTR Palinivel Thiagarajan has said that the Revenue deficit situation in Tamil Nadu is alarming since 2013- 14 and that the state fiscal situation is in an “unsustainable” position. The state finance minister was releasing a white paper on the state’s finances as a prelude to the paperless […]

Chennai, August 9(IANS) The Enforcement Directorate has registered a case under Tamil Nadu minister for Electricity, Prohibition, and Excise, Senthil  Balaji under the Prevention of Money Laundering (PML)Act. The central agency has summoned the minister to appear before it on August 11, sources told BPNS. The Central Crime Branch of Tamil Nadu police has registered […]

Chennai, August 6( BPNS) With back to back incidents of communal distrust surfacing in the state, the state government is contemplating a new law to protect communal harmony in the state. A  Catholic priest , Father George Ponniah was booked by Tamil Nadu police over hate speech at Kanyakumari in a public function on July […]

Chennai, August 6(BPNS) Plagued by the two years of pandemic followed by financial constraints, the state of Tamil Nadu is continuing with the retirement age of government employees at 60 years. The retirement age of government employees of Tamil Nadu was raised to 59 and then to 60 by the previous AIADMK government of Edappadi […]

Chennai, August 6(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin has on Friday extended lockdown will August 23. The government has also decided to open schools in the state for classes IX, X, XII, XII on September 1. The new lockdown rules will come into effect from August 9. The state school education department has been […]

Chennai, August 5(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP buoyed up after winning four assembly seats in 2021 legislative assembly polls is gearing up for the ensuing local body polls to the new nine districts of the state and the urban local body polls. BJP has constituted a 17 member committee on Wednesday with […]

Chennai, August 5(IANS) The opposition AIADMK has come out strongly against the failure of the DMK government to defend the law against online games with stakes in the Madras High court. The court had on Tuesday struck down a recent amendment to the Tamil Nadu Gaming Act passed in 1930, which imposed a ban on […]

Chennai, August 5(BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin launched ‘Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam’, the DMK government’s flagship programme in Samanapalli village in Krishnagiri district. The programme which is to deliver health care at the doorsteps of the people of Tamil Nadu was the DMK ’s major promise to the people of the state during the […]

Chennai, August 5(BPNS) Founder leader of Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Dr. S. Ramadoss has said that there is no point in dropping caste names of achievers from the textbooks and called upon the state government to allow mentioning the caste names of eminent scholars in Tamil textbooks. The PMK leader was responding to the reports […]